Nidhogg Coming to PS Vita: Cross-Buy, Online Play, and More

We are super stoked to announce that Nidhogg is coming to PS Vita, and it will be released simultaneously with the PS4 version! It will be cross-buy, so if you grab one you’ll get both the PS4 and PS Vita versions. How dope is that?!

If you haven’t heard of Nidhogg yet, thats cool. Its been around the PC game world for a while, and at super awesome parties around the world. Its a two player fencing/fighting game where the ultimate goal is to get eaten by a massive pink dragon: the Nidhogg.

Nidhogg is pretty much the ultimate party game, but you can also practice in single player mode against an AI opponent or play with friends or randos online. When you inevitably have a Nidhogg party, there’s a built in tournament mode for 3-8 players. We had some crazy high stakes tournaments at EVO. You can also toggle a bunch of different variants on and off, or combine them for endless weirdness (baby mode + spine swords?).

The soundtrack consists of four dynamic (epic!!!) electronic tracks by the world-famous musician Daedelus. The music track levels change based on the action onscreen, so it’s always (subtly!) changing. You’ll never hear the same exact version twice! Take a listen to the clouds level here

PS Vita is a great way to play Nidhogg. You can play in single-player mode against AI opponents, of course, but you can also connect to PSN over wifi and play against all the other players out there, whether they’re on Vita or PS4. The PS4 version works online as well, and you can even play online across systems (Vita vs PS4!!). If you’re out of wifi range and you just want to play someone on the bus you can do that in Vita to Vita ad-hoc mode. If you just have one Vita and two people, you can still play! The left stick controls one player and the right stick controls the other!

Our company, Messhof, has been working with Code Mystics to bring out Nidhogg for PS4 and Vita, and we can’t wait to share it with you! See you online!

Wow, I was looking forward to playing this on PS4, but now upon seeing that not only is there a vita version, but it supports cross-buy, cross-play, ad-hoc, and single-system play, the vita version definitely sounds like the way to play. This game can’t come soon enough!

I was playing TowerFall with my friends the other day and thinking how much I can’t wait for this game to come to PS4. PSV will be awesome too. Two players on one system sounds like crazy hilarious fun.

I’m glad to hear it’s coming out on the Vita– and giving it functional two-player with one system is brilliant. Could we possibly get an update on its release date? The original window was “summer,” but I’m not confident in it making that with what’s left of it.

With lag a big concern for twitch, accuracy important games like this, have you made any improvements to the online part of the game? Lots of Steam players have raised some issues with lag being a pain in the backside for whoever isn’t the host.

Please reply! The game is second to none in local multiplayer, and if this could be replicated online, it would be awesome. Just, amazing.

Nidhog is amazing. Played it a lot in my pc with my friends. Lots of fun. And totally going to get it for my playstation. The fighting system is actually very deep after some timing playing it.
There’s any news about Samurai Gunn for PS4? Its amazing too.

I bought this game on Steam before having some friend’s over for a video game party. It was two days after Mario Kart 8 and we figured MK8 would be our main event that night, and perhaps Niddhogg would be a fun game during breaks.

This game got crazy reviews when it came out. People actually nominating it as the best indie game they played this year. Setting up corners in the office to have lunchtime sessions. Then a week later… crickets.